Payment Rails Product Director - Standards and Governance - Executive Director

Ignite your passion for product innovation by leading customer-centric development, inspiring solutions, and shaping the future with your strategic vision and influence, while ensuring robust governance practices that uphold standards and compliance throughout the product lifecycle.

As a Product Director in Payment Rails, you will lead our efforts in developing and enhancing Payment products with a strong focus on risk management and regulatory compliance.

In this role, you will have a global mandate and lead a team to collaborate with other product leaders and cross-functional partners to ensure our products meet the highest standards of performance and adherence.

Job responsibilities


* Serve as a subject matter expert on product design to ensure all products adhere to internal and external standards and regulations, working closely with product teams, regions and controls partners.


* Oversee, develop and execute a strategic roadmap for underlying capabilities, tools and features to support ongoing operating hygiene of Payments Rails products.


* Oversee the continuous analysis and enhancement of existing payment products and services based on evolving risk and regulatory environment as well as underlying commercial use cases for various products.


* Stay informed about policy and regulatory changes affecting payment products and act as a point of governance and oversight within Product organization to ensure proper design and requirements gathering as well as implementation to stay current with these changes.


* Coaches and mentors the product team on best practices; manage and mentor a small direct and/ or matrix team of product managers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

Provide guidance and support to ensure team members achieve their goals and contribute to the overall success of the product portfolio.


* Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success.

Provide regular reports to senior management on product performance, compliance status, and strategic initiatives.


* Work closely with other product leaders and cross-functional partners, including engineering, operations, controls as well as independent risk functions, to drive product initiatives.

Ensure effective communication and alignment across teams.


* Monitors market trends, conducts competitive analysis, and identifies opportunities for product differentiation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* 8+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in Payments product management and/ or product delivery, with a focus on risk and governance.


* Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or a related field.


* Strong understanding of payment systems, risk management, and regulatory compliance.


* Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.


* Experience managing and developing a team of product managers.


* Ability to collaborate effectively with cros...